On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Markus Storm wrote:
> can I safely run slapcat while running slapd?
> The manpage says no, but I guess the author just used slapadd/delete's
> manpage as a template.
> I'd understand the output LDIF might be corrupted, but can it really
> corrupt the database ?
The problem is that, while slapd is running, there is the possibility that
not all the data in the system is written to disk when you run slapcat - the
database may be in an inconsistent state.
This isn't OpenLDAP specific - perhaps it doesn't suffer from this problem.
But my solution is to not take the chance, and just stop slapd if you need
to slapcat.
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Matthew Palmer
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